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Post by honeypea on Jul 14, 2021 14:29:49 GMT
Inspired by Laura W’s stamp reference pages, I’m slowly doing something similar. I won’t be cutting apart my stamps, just making reference pages with like stamps to easily compare my options.
The first one I did, and I’ve meant to do this forever, is stamp every journaling grid/block stamp. I love these little grid boxes, but sifting through bins trying to find a certain size was frustrating. Game changer! I’ve used this reference page dozens of times in the past week.
Anyway- my next reference will be for alphas & numbers.
My question- what letters would be most useful to stamp for reference?
Laura stamped “font” as her sample and I don’t care for that at all.
I think a word with a tail (ypgjq) or often used vowels - (aei) - Any ideas?
In thinking and planning for this I realized I have way more lowercase alphas and only a couple with uppers, and they’re both really small in size. Useful to know!
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Post by janamke on Jul 14, 2021 14:57:36 GMT
I’m about to start stamping my alpha inventory, this is a great question. I assumed I would just do ABC but including something with a tail would be useful. Most of my stamps are all uppercase though. Please keep us posted on what you decide to do.
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Post by mrssch on Jul 14, 2021 16:38:07 GMT
Who's Laura W? and what's her reference pages? This sounds like just what I need!
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Post by peachiceteas on Jul 14, 2021 16:46:49 GMT
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Post by joblackford on Jul 14, 2021 16:50:50 GMT
I looked up words that use all of the vowels to see if there were some good ones that also use a few ascenders and descenders, but they're not the most fun words... but maybe one will catch your eye!
equation, education, tambourine, communicate, ambidextrous, automobile, groundbreaking, evaluation, evacuation, commutative, euphoria, pneumonia, encouraging, cauliflower, intellectualization, revolutionary, saliferous, audiophile, adulteration, menstruation, sequestration, abstemious, gregarious, tenacious, facetious, equivocating, equivocation, pandemonium, rejuvenation, neutralization, Aeonium, praseodymium, authoritative, ostentatious, precaution, devaluation, coeducation, permutation, pertinacious, autosuggestion, hallucinogens, repudiation, Australopithecus, aeronautics, tourmaline, abstemiousness, exhumation, eukaryotic, exhaustion, neurotransmitter...
Most font sites use the name of the font as the sample text plus the 'quick brown fox' sentence, but that's probably not ideal if you want something short, consistent, and easy to stamp. Maybe a name or something silly like 'gnome fairy' ? I'll be interested to hear what you choose.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 14, 2021 16:53:40 GMT
Who's Laura W? and what's her reference pages? This sounds like just what I need! I'm guessing Laura Wonsik? This seems to be the video she shared about her stamp re-org. www.instagram.com/tv/CK2Z49KA_50/ |
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Post by CardBoxer on Jul 14, 2021 16:58:14 GMT
Neat idea! I might stamp on vellum to be able to place them over a page to see how the font would look. A gentle heat tool could help with drying, like Ranger’s Heat It that’s gentle enough to not move watercolors (as opposed to Wagner, which is used most of the time.) Or if not vellum, gridded paper.
Maybe an upper and lower case two-word combo of tall and tailed letters and an exclamation point. Nonsense words would be fine. Mybip Grin!
ETA I wrote this before seeing the example. Mine would be simpler with words (fake or real) lined up so each font could be seen against the project.
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Post by Ryann on Jul 14, 2021 17:16:58 GMT
I would definitely include letters that have an ascender and descender, then one that does not. Something like "day" or "bag" etc.
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Post by honeypea on Jul 14, 2021 18:49:50 GMT
Who's Laura W? and what's her reference pages? This sounds like just what I need! Laura Wonsik. She hosted Ali’s Stamp Day Live a few weeks ago and had a chat with Ali about it. She’s probably shown it elsewhere too. |
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Post by mom on Jul 14, 2021 19:26:29 GMT
Im still working though my thought process on this, but I am leaning towards just stamping a letter A and one single number. Usually when I am looking for a font, I am more interested in overall size and can easily flip through to look at asending/descending letters to see if they work.
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Post by lasteve1 on Jul 14, 2021 21:12:06 GMT
peachiceteas thanks for tagging me! This thread is right on point with my recent stories but I missed it before  Honestly when I started mine I didn't even think about stamping more letters. It takes a long time to stamp out all my stamps in this way, stamping more than one letter would exponentially multiply the time it takes to create the sheet and make the sheets fill up more quickly. I also have had this system for 3-4 years? and I have never wished I had more letters on there. I really just look for the size/basic style and then pull out the set to look at the rest of the letters. If I am torn about a few sets, I will just pull them out and hold them over my spread. This just helps me narrow down the general alpha I want without flipping through all my stamps or forgetting about sets that I have. Of course, this might not work for everyone, but I see the reference sheet as just a way to locate my stamps/remember what I have, not necessarily plan my whole page. Once I decide from my reference sheet the stamp or stamps I think I might want to use, I pull them out and then go from there. Just because I pull a set doesn't mean I have to use it.
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Post by honeypea on Jul 14, 2021 21:32:07 GMT
I looked up words that use all of the vowels to see if there were some good ones that also use a few ascenders and descenders, but they're not the most fun words... but maybe one will catch your eye! equation, education, tambourine, communicate, ambidextrous, automobile, groundbreaking, evaluation, evacuation, commutative, euphoria, pneumonia, encouraging, cauliflower, intellectualization, revolutionary, saliferous, audiophile, adulteration, menstruation, sequestration, abstemious, gregarious, tenacious, facetious, equivocating, equivocation, pandemonium, rejuvenation, neutralization, Aeonium, praseodymium, authoritative, ostentatious, precaution, devaluation, coeducation, permutation, pertinacious, autosuggestion, hallucinogens, repudiation, Australopithecus, aeronautics, tourmaline, abstemiousness, exhumation, eukaryotic, exhaustion, neurotransmitter... Most font sites use the name of the font as the sample text plus the 'quick brown fox' sentence, but that's probably not ideal if you want something short, consistent, and easy to stamp. Maybe a name or something silly like 'gnome fairy' ? I'll be interested to hear what you choose. Thank you for this extensive list of suggestions. I laughed out loud at “menstruation” as a reference word. 🤣 |
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Post by joblackford on Jul 15, 2021 16:35:44 GMT
I looked up words that use all of the vowels to see if there were some good ones that also use a few ascenders and descenders, but they're not the most fun words... but maybe one will catch your eye! equation, education, tambourine, communicate, ambidextrous, automobile, groundbreaking, evaluation, evacuation, commutative, euphoria, pneumonia, encouraging, cauliflower, intellectualization, revolutionary, saliferous, audiophile, adulteration, menstruation, sequestration, abstemious, gregarious, tenacious, facetious, equivocating, equivocation, pandemonium, rejuvenation, neutralization, Aeonium, praseodymium, authoritative, ostentatious, precaution, devaluation, coeducation, permutation, pertinacious, autosuggestion, hallucinogens, repudiation, Australopithecus, aeronautics, tourmaline, abstemiousness, exhumation, eukaryotic, exhaustion, neurotransmitter... Most font sites use the name of the font as the sample text plus the 'quick brown fox' sentence, but that's probably not ideal if you want something short, consistent, and easy to stamp. Maybe a name or something silly like 'gnome fairy' ? I'll be interested to hear what you choose. Thank you for this extensive list of suggestions. I laughed out loud at “menstruation” as a reference word. 🤣 Most of them are pretty bad, but also kind of fun to see (I'm a word geek). I can just imagine a family member finding your sheets and wondering why you'd stamped menstruation or cauliflower in dozens of different fonts. lol. I cut and pasted the whole list from a website. |
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Post by cbscrapper on Jul 15, 2021 17:47:20 GMT
I think “fairy” is a great word to stamp - ascender, descender, and the letter “a” which can be so very different font to font.
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Post by honeypea on Jul 15, 2021 22:21:49 GMT
I think “fairy” is a great word to stamp - ascender, descender, and the letter “a” which can be so very different font to font. Ooh, good one! I was considering “daily” for the same reasons. I’d like to get an “e” in there too, though. I’m also thinking about using my daughter’s name (paige). Really my main hesitation is my oldest tends to get jealous over silly stuff like that. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ |
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Post by cbscrapper on Jul 16, 2021 4:04:34 GMT
I think “fairy” is a great word to stamp - ascender, descender, and the letter “a” which can be so very different font to font. Ooh, good one! I was considering “daily” for the same reasons. I’d like to get an “e” in there too, though. I’m also thinking about using my daughter’s name (paige). Really my main hesitation is my oldest tends to get jealous over silly stuff like that. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ fairytale would work too, but it’s long. |
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Post by Patter on Jul 19, 2021 11:36:14 GMT
Back in 2015, I did my inventory using several Rolodex. I LOVE it this way. Easy to find stamps for sure. Sorry the pictures aren't great. They are old photos.  I love color so I chose to stamp the images in different colors. Notice on each card you can see the manufacturer on the left and the set name on the right. Stamps are stored in alphabetical order by set name in my boxes.  |
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